Isaac Tichenor

Isaac Tichenor

Isaac Tichenor (born February 8, 1754 in Newark , Province of New Jersey , † December 11, 1838 in Bennington , Vermont ) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the governor and senator of Vermont.

education

After graduating basic studies at the then College of New Jersey, now Princeton University in 1775, he spent two years studying law in Schenectady , New York .

Legal career in Vermont

As assistant to the coroner, he was transferred to Bennington, Vermont, where he served as a legal advisor and the state legislature for two decades. From 1781 to 1785 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Vermont , 1783/84 also its spokesman. From 1782 to 1789 he officially represented the interests of Vermont at the Continental Congress , where he should promote Vermont's admission to the Union. In 1789 he was appointed to the faculty of Dartmouth College. From 1786 to 1791 he served as governor of the Republic of Vermont . At the beginning of 1790 he was one of the commissioners who had to settle the border issues with the neighboring state of New York. After serving as assistant judge at the Vermont Supreme Court from 1791 to 1796 , he presided as the state's chief judge from 1794 to 1796.

Political career

Tichenor was considered a member of the Federalist Party when the party dominated the federal government. Since most of the other Vermont leaders at the time rejected the federalist position, Tichenor seldom had an easy position in Vermont.

In 1791 he tried unsuccessfully for a seat in the United States House of Representatives . In the first ballot against Matthew Lyon and Israel Smith , he achieved 29 percent of the electoral vote and was eliminated. But in 1796 he was elected to the US Senate , where he only exercised his mandate briefly when he was elected governor of Vermont the following year.

He held this office until 1807 when Israel Smith forced him to an early election by political means to a defeat. But already in 1808 he was able to outstrip Smith in the election and remained governor of the state until Jonas Galusha replaced him in 1809.

In 1815 Tichenor moved back to the Senate, where he represented his state's concerns for the next six years . After retiring from politics, he continued to practice as a lawyer. At the old age of 84 he died in his hometown of Bennington in 1838, where he was buried in the city cemetery in Old Bennington.

literature

• Walter H. Crockett: Isaac Tichenor. In: Vermonters: A Book of Biographies. Stephen Daye Press, Brattleboro 1931, pp. 220-223.

Web links

• Isaac Tichenor in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Isaac Tichenor in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Isaac Tichenor in the National Governors Association (English)